Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fca27b92fe2a9615…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.6 KB Created: 2021-03-15 23:12:42 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 0238c32c798024a9570895a93bc206b2 SHA-1: daca78400f1c8f3719c952f545cbcdc26046d02d SHA-256: fca27b92fe2a9615106c0617ca85e96ad2f7f7e2cd0ad7a9c4dbeb14b94c2fe7
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a browser extension installation lure, indicating a social-engineering attempt to trick the user into installing potentially malicious software. The document also contains an external URI that appears to be part of a link farm, potentially used for SEO manipulation or to direct users to malicious content. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of a malicious PDF classification and the lure suggest an attempt to execute further malicious actions, possibly via embedded JavaScript or by prompting the user to download and run a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://leonvi.ru/wix?keyword=dragon+age+inquisition+answer+a+request+from+hasmal PDF link annotation
    • http://zanapipok.getenjoyment.net/astronomical_telescope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buylettersonline.com/juradupotilobpao2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zesegalos.scienceontheweb.net/birorewemepajisufexaleda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jevulifed.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134457796/mivuregotab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebay-coupon.ru/132890426057k2oc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paganel.world/gejemefigekugipizozaneu2rkr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nefotinabe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135314884/vexevo-gigusena-vijovosixoleza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jelusuvobirolen.mywebcommunity.org/gimed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jadogaxarabu.mygamesonline.org/36900448731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://0f4267a5-27df-427f-b7ff-de3c6d4a4cd0.filesusr.com/ugd/9e4921_20c4887f283c446cbd0ba18a733e4068.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tedowafomaru/sivapitilanexekilirofux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://51956041-da35-40aa-96c1-085c1f47c80d.filesusr.com/ugd/e6e573_1ed01b6128e44798bbbd87a880c3bcf2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bexolamabad/tusawetisetizuvifisefole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fd0ef26f-7b8f-4c91-b3b2-19f7ec93487a.filesusr.com/ugd/4174bf_58c25f05e7e0481e9c43535fac0a0bc3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://75e6061f-eb7a-4ce8-b546-077bf96366c3.filesusr.com/ugd/2dfd19_24d8b205dcd54c84a3ba581cec805159.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://af30af13-e0b7-4de0-aca7-7783c01eade2.filesusr.com/ugd/9757e7_d0a0979e4ebe47d3a8e5559f4aa5f7c7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c06d174a-caca-4ab2-b5a0-4525cd3135d4.filesusr.com/ugd/856cea_15eff6c7bea44fe0a13ed09bb26eff7a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://da550aaf-34ae-4f9b-ad82-7836b82beebe.filesusr.com/ugd/a203e6_a9afc88a6bc345fa978727e19fd89bec.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://590703a0-be71-4d3c-a49f-17767d5969ef.filesusr.com/ugd/656c20_4df928c2e08b4b75b22c4deaf7a4ee87.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/libowebujakux/free_books_online_without_registration.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4c8cc264-4606-483b-a6fd-3ab48ba5c15a.filesusr.com/ugd/c626f4_0200d7e169984495b23852e27cfc8c55.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/retisovojor/53543214713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fizufapu/bomoliwugawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://981168d4-05fc-44b6-871d-73371d7e8cf1.filesusr.com/ugd/87d215_d757837503a34c0783fcd1808a91ba5f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00014139.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14139 5400 bytes
SHA-256: a49d5ca45a6d07717df0dedfe8cd14830694e6aca17bf3c28d16d0b4c1be97fe
font_01_sfnt_off00015383.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15383 10984 bytes
SHA-256: 602dfd8a4a2c8ce489b0d23eb51ac6a298be715a1f01f301e1fe9cbda4bb531b